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TO: Board of County Commissioners FROM: Sharon P. Brennan - Assistant County Attorney`; DATE: January 15, 1990 SUBJECT: STATUS REPORT ON ECONOM I C Q&V&2T�ntf COUNC I L AND OVERALL EXTENSION COUNCIL At the Board's January 9, 1990 meeting, our office was asked to prepare a status report concerning the following two committees: kyr Economic @e'v'e- uK_ C o u n c 1 I c�/ �%ZCi /KL. This Council was not established by the Board of County Commissioners, rather it is a non-profit corporation which was set up in accordance with requirements of the Department Community Affairs to work as the local liaison for state programs through the Division of Economic Development and also for federal programs through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and the Community Service Act of 1974. The bylaws provide that one-third of the 69 members of the Board of Directors shall be public elected officials currently holding office or their representative, and further provides that if the number of elected officials available and willing to serve is less than one-third of the membership, appointive public officials may be counted in meeting the one-third requirement. Th further provide that if elected public officials are unable or unwilling to serve, the Council's Board shall solicit the appointive public officials to meet the one-third requirement. A status check on January 12th with the Secretary of State revealed that the council has active corporate status and most recently filed a annual report in June 1989. The bylaws of the council provide that there should be an annual meeting of the Board in October of each year and that regular meetings of the Board shall be held during seven other months after public notice of the meeti6g. The Board of County Commissioners involvement with this council apparently began in April 190, when representatives of council requested that the Board should designate thirteen members of the council. At that time, the Board made appointments of various elected officials or of their representative as well as representatives of public agencies. (See attached minutes). The Board of County Commissioners therefore did not create- the Economic Opportunity Council, and its role has apparently been to make appointments of public officials or representatives as a courtesy to the council. This office was asked to prepare a status report on the Economic Opportunity Council of Indian River County, however, because of some name similarity I include the following report for clarification: :